The MintPass Mintpad. Think a tiny PDA smashed together with a portable media player, or a tiny, PostIt sized iPod Touch without the OS or Apple seal. It’s a lovely little PMP that’s been in the newsfeed pipeline for a while, but finally seems set to get its long anticipated release.

What can you expect in the MintPad then? Like we said, it is a PostIt sized device with a 2.86 inch touchscreen. It runs on Windows CE, which is a little strange, but it’s stylus-equpped and comes with both WiFi and a built-in camera.

There’s the usual slew of codec support: MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC on the audio side, and AVI, WMV and MP4 support on the video. It also supports JPGs, GIFs and BMPs. The Mintpad ships with a 12 band graphical equalizer with 12 presets, a text (think: ebook) viewer, the ability to play Flash videos and access other Internet content, and built-in memo support, which even includes multimedia memos, using audio or video media, or photographs taken with the built-in 1.3 megapixel camera.

The MintPass also comes with a USB connector and a microSD card slot for easy storage expansion. There’s only one flavor of storage size right now, which is 4GB, but the price is right: about $160.

The MintPass MiniPad isn’t going to be for everyone, but it looks like a capable device and a truly refreshing entry into the portable media player market. It’s nice to see something compelling come out that’s innovative without being Apple.